Functional traits mediate ant community assembly in a West African savannah-forest mosaic (Cote d'Ivoire)

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F24%3A00602164" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/24:00602164 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/60076658:12310/24:43909131

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439179124000756/pdfft?md5=fbf8280b7df380c51e422e8cc5853906&pid=1-s2.0-S1439179124000756-main.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439179124000756/pdfft?md5=fbf8280b7df380c51e422e8cc5853906&pid=1-s2.0-S1439179124000756-main.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2024.10.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.baae.2024.10.003</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Functional traits mediate ant community assembly in a West African savannah-forest mosaic (Cote d'Ivoire)

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

African forest-savannah mosaics are complex landscapes holding mixtures of woody grasslands (savannah) and different forest systems (gallery forests and forest islands). In these landscapes, ants are highly diverse and perform essential ecosystem services, however, the assembly of ant communities in African forest-savannah mosaics is poorly understood. Here we showed the diversity and species overlap of ant communities in three habitats of the West African savannah and quantified the contribution of thermal tolerances and trophic ecology to community assembly. We investigated ant diversity in the West African Comoe National Park (Cote d'Ivoire) at 16 sites of three habitat types within a forest-savannah mosaic: continuous gallery forest, isolated forest islands and savannah. Across all sites, we collected a total of 91 species from 35 genera from three strata: trees, leaf litter, and soil. Additionally, we assessed differences in functional traits (trophic groups and thermal tolerance) between habitat types and strata. Though species richness was similar in all three habitats, there was a clear separation in species assemblages and functional traits between the two forest habitats and the savannah. Species assemblage shifts were primarily due to species turnover between savannah and forest habitats. In addition, the turnover in species assemblages from forests to savannah habitats was associated with a change in the thermal tolerance of species and in the proportion of trophobionts and predators. Forest and savannah habitats support distinct ant communities with different functional traits and contribute additively to the landscape-scale diversity of the West African ant fauna. Land-use and park management should focus on conserving both savannah and forest sites in tropical protected areas such as the Comoe National Park.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Functional traits mediate ant community assembly in a West African savannah-forest mosaic (Cote d'Ivoire)

Popis výsledku anglicky

African forest-savannah mosaics are complex landscapes holding mixtures of woody grasslands (savannah) and different forest systems (gallery forests and forest islands). In these landscapes, ants are highly diverse and perform essential ecosystem services, however, the assembly of ant communities in African forest-savannah mosaics is poorly understood. Here we showed the diversity and species overlap of ant communities in three habitats of the West African savannah and quantified the contribution of thermal tolerances and trophic ecology to community assembly. We investigated ant diversity in the West African Comoe National Park (Cote d'Ivoire) at 16 sites of three habitat types within a forest-savannah mosaic: continuous gallery forest, isolated forest islands and savannah. Across all sites, we collected a total of 91 species from 35 genera from three strata: trees, leaf litter, and soil. Additionally, we assessed differences in functional traits (trophic groups and thermal tolerance) between habitat types and strata. Though species richness was similar in all three habitats, there was a clear separation in species assemblages and functional traits between the two forest habitats and the savannah. Species assemblage shifts were primarily due to species turnover between savannah and forest habitats. In addition, the turnover in species assemblages from forests to savannah habitats was associated with a change in the thermal tolerance of species and in the proportion of trophobionts and predators. Forest and savannah habitats support distinct ant communities with different functional traits and contribute additively to the landscape-scale diversity of the West African ant fauna. Land-use and park management should focus on conserving both savannah and forest sites in tropical protected areas such as the Comoe National Park.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10618 - Ecology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Basic and applied Ecology

ISSN

1439-1791

e-ISSN

1618-0089

Svazek periodika

81

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

DEC 2024

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

35-43

Kód UT WoS článku

001350243400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85207699439